Helen of Troy or Helen of Sparta?

Just think about it like comicbooks. Elseworlds and shit. Everything is canon, or not.

>>9220313
There is no canon of ancient mythology. There are a bunch of stories about interesting characters recycled and reused by different storytellers for different purposes.

Don't try to find the "right" answer; try to find out why a story teller is messing with a different version. Stop thinking of myths as inherently different from literature.

No puedo hablar en espanol muy bien, pero voy a tratar: no hay historias de graecia o roma que son "correctas." Todas fueron mitos, y todas fueron importantes porque la gente de la pasada las gustan. No debes buscar las versiones que aparecen derechas porque no existen -- son historias, no son realidad -- debes estudiar las differencias entre las historias y debes preguntar "porque?" Parece en los mitos modernos de vampiros o magos. Me entiendes?

Alternatively, all the contradicting stories are simultaneously true

>>9221413
quantum history. the only way to fly.

>>9220379
yeah man i get it but my question is: Why does the same autor desagree with himself on another play that he made?

>>9220313
I think its based on Stesicoro's Palinodia

>>9221417
holy...

The "definitive edition", so to speak, was assembled in a painstaking progress by the alexandrine school. They were much closer to the source material, both chronologically and culturally than we are, so I choose to trust Zenodotus etc. over modern scholars

>>9221928

Because the plays weren't intended to be a direct and fully truthful retelling of events. They were written for a variety of reasons ranging from entertainment to propaganda.

Think of them as the ancient world's equivalent of "Based on a true story" films. The overall picture probably has some truth to it, but the details are edited for the purposes of the story the writer wants to tell.

she stayed in alexandria

trust in herodotus

modern academics need literally any excuse to publish